What Creative, Busy Fools These Students Be

— from Brigid Ehrmantraut —

Faculty and students at Orcas Island High School were greeted by the smell of hay as they walked through the doors this morning.

There is a long tradition of the Senior Class pranking the school the night before April Fool’s Day. This year, the seniors were at work until well after 9 p.m. the evening of March 31st, supervised, of course, by responsible adults! The science classrooms were, understandably, off-limits.

Here’s a list of some of the best pranks:

• Wall of hay bales on main staircase and in front of HS office
• Piano moved from band room to HS commons
• Copious quantities of oregano, pancake mix, straws, and mayonnaise on several desks….
• Spanish room sofa liberated for student use in the commons
• Middle school math class set up outside
• Chairs on HS roof
• Barricades in front of main door
• Web of yarn strung across commons
• Furniture blocking back stairs
• More furniture in front of locker rooms
• Bucket of packing peanuts rigged to spill when the door to one classroom was opened
• Classroom was duct-taped shut (it took almost an entire role of duct-tape)
• Social Studies teacher’s liberal cartoons/bumper stickers covered with Tea Party slogans/posters
• One teacher’s monthly syllabus sheets were dramatically improved… AP Exams were moved up two weeks and Graduation was moved up nearly two and a half months! Oddly enough, several special “Senior Appreciation Days” found their way onto the calendar….
• Map displays in Social Studies rooms featured new Westeros and Middle Earth geographic additions
• Cellophane on toilets
• Swivel chair bubble-wrapped
• Bathroom and elevator “Out of Order” notices
• Generous distribution of balloons around campus (several filled with water)
• One teacher’s normal parking place was filled with road construction signs